Washington
Saturday mn'g April 9 '641
Dear brother
I got a letter from Mother this morning, & she sends one to you for me to direct—I will just enclose both—you must write to Mother oftener—before she got this last letter it was too long, & seemed ten times longer than it was2—if she don't hear from you in a long while she just gets sick about it—she is getting pretty old, & shows it at last—still I think she is pretty well—
Nothing new with me—I wrote you three days ago,3 to Annapolis, I suppose you got it—Jeff is away a good deal of the time, surveying &c4—We are having another rain-storm set in here this morning—Congress is splurging away, doing some good things too—I see Kalbfleisch5 & Odell6 here frequently—have you writ to Han? Well, brother, good bye for present—
Walt
Notes
- 1. The envelope for this
letter bears the address: Capt George W Whitman | vet 51st New York Vol |
Annapolis | Maryland. It is postmarked: Brooklyn, N. Y. | Apr |26 |186
(?). [back]
- 2. George wrote to his
mother on April 3, 1864; apparently his last
letter had been written on March 6, 1864.
[back]
- 3. This letter is not
known. [back]
- 4. In December 1863, Jeff
had made surveys at Springfield, Massachusetts, and, in February and March, he
had been in Connecticut "making surveys for an 'Iron Co.'" See Thomas Jefferson
Whitman's March 11, 1864, letter to Walt
Whitman. [back]
- 5. See Whitman's letter to
his mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, dated January 19,
1864. [back]
- 6. See Whitman's letter to
his mother, dated December 29, 1862
. [back]